Other Interests: pursuing your passion

Australian blogs

AustralianBlogs.com.au is growing quickly.

It is a listing of blogs about an Australian subject or topic; OR by an Australian; OR have a .au domain name.

Blogs Update

Blog is word of the year for 2004 (by Merriam-Webster).

Corporate Engagement offers this round up in relation to corporate blogging including beSpacific's powerpoint on the topic.

I spoke to someone recently who thought blogs did not meet the "cosmetic" standards of websites! He is wrong (check out samples of the blogs designed by Kevin O'Keefe) and is missing out on an opportunity to talk to his customers.

Australian Election Result

The Government has been returned with an increased majority and possibly control of the Senate.

The Virtual Tally Room shows the latest results.

News Aggregators and Blogs

Wisblawg has published this helpful powerpoint presentation on using news aggregators, in particular Bloglines (which I also use), to save time looking at individual sites.

Australian Election

The Federal Election will be held on Saturday 9 October.

For straight information, look at the ABC's Election site.

For a round up of the political blogs go to The Domain.

Offbeat

For something a little bit different try:

Things 2do before you die ;

and

Things Other People Accomplished When They Were Your Age.

You'll either be motivated or mortified!

Bloggers Talk Back

On 12 July, ABC Radio National had a special talkback session on blogging. You can listen to it using Real Player.

John Quiggin and Tim Blair were interviewed and, amongst others, Instapundit was mentioned. It focussed on the political aspects.

Unfortunately there was no mention of RSS or aggregators. Or blawgs.

It's official: blogs have business value

Reuters has this story that Bill Gates says that blogs together with RSS technology are good business communication tools.

New Blogger

I see that Google have found time to revamp Blogger (which I use for 4 blogs). Looks good so far.

New Legal Tech Articles

Dennis Kennedy has 2 articles worth reading at Law Practice Today: one on Legal Technology Blogs and the other on
2004 Legal Technology Trends.

As usual there are also other goodies this month.